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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Specifically, what did these rules mandate?
(a) The people must live with their many wives and support them.
(b) People were given divorces if they were unhappy.
(c) Prevent sex and divorce among the upper class.
(d) To make having multiple wives legal.

2. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?
(a) It is not less risky.
(b) There is no seeking out mates or the risk of being rejected.
(c) There will be no one competing.
(d) All the clones will be healthy.

3. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(b) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually produce.
(c) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.
(d) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.

4. Why are female chimps extremely promiscuous in large social groups?
(a) It is part of choosing the most ideal mate.
(b) Males will not know which child is his, so he will protect all of them.
(c) They want to have many father options.
(d) They enjoy sex.

5. Why do women need men?
(a) To help raise and provide for their children.
(b) To continue making children.
(c) To educate their children.
(d) To be lifetime partners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Females are ______ more likely to have the right kind of orgasm and to become impregnated when unfaithful.

2. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.

3. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.

4. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.

5. What genders are not always needed?

(see the answer key)

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